Different menu for different tabs in tab+swipe application for android project

Question

I am a beginner to android applications and java, basically I am a PHP developer.

I've a project for a tab+swipe application,

Reseller.java

package com.idevoc.onsitereseller;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.ActionBar.Tab;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;

public class Reseller extends FragmentActivity {

    FragmentTransaction transaction;
    static ViewPager mViewPager;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_reseller);

    Fragment tabOneFragment = new TabOne();
    Fragment tabTwoFragment = new TabTwo();

    PagerAdapter mPagerAdapter = new PagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
    mPagerAdapter.addFragment(tabOneFragment);
    mPagerAdapter.addFragment(tabTwoFragment);

    //transaction = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();

    mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
            mViewPager.setAdapter(mPagerAdapter);
            mViewPager.setOffscreenPageLimit(2);
        mViewPager.setCurrentItem(0);

            mViewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(
                new ViewPager.SimpleOnPageChangeListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                        // When swiping between pages, select the
                        // corresponding tab.
                        getActionBar().setSelectedNavigationItem(position);
                    }
                });

    ActionBar ab = getActionBar();
    ab.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
    Tab tab1 = ab.newTab().setText("Tab One")
                    .setTabListener(new TabListener<TabOne>(
                    this, "tabone", TabOne.class));

            Tab tab2 = ab.newTab().setText("Tab Two")
                            .setTabListener(new TabListener<TabTwo>(
                    this, "tabtwo", TabTwo.class));

            ab.addTab(tab1);
            ab.addTab(tab2);         
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
    return true;
}

public static class TabListener<T extends Fragment> implements ActionBar.TabListener {
    private Fragment mFragment;
    private final Activity mActivity;
    private final String mTag;
    private final Class<T> mClass;

    /** Constructor used each time a new tab is created.
      * @param activity  The host Activity, used to instantiate the fragment
      * @param tag  The identifier tag for the fragment
      * @param clz  The fragment's Class, used to instantiate the fragment
      */
    public TabListener(Activity activity, String tag, Class<T> clz) {
        mActivity = activity;
        mTag = tag;
        mClass = clz;
    }

    /* The following are each of the ActionBar.TabListener callbacks */

    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        // Check if the fragment is already initialized
        if (mFragment == null) {
            // If not, instantiate and add it to the activity
            mFragment = Fragment.instantiate(mActivity, mClass.getName());
            ft.add(android.R.id.content, mFragment, mTag);
        } else {
            // If it exists, simply attach it in order to show it
            ft.attach(mFragment);
        }
    }

    public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        if (mFragment != null) {
            // Detach the fragment, because another one is being attached
            ft.detach(mFragment);
        }
    }

    public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        // User selected the already selected tab. Usually do nothing.
    }

            public void onTabReselected(Tab arg0,
                            android.app.FragmentTransaction arg1)
            {


            }

            public void onTabSelected(Tab arg0, android.app.FragmentTransaction arg1)
            {

                    mViewPager.setCurrentItem(arg0.getPosition());
            }

            public void onTabUnselected(Tab arg0,
                            android.app.FragmentTransaction arg1)
            {


            }
}

public class PagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter{

    private final ArrayList<Fragment> mFragments = new ArrayList<Fragment>();

    public PagerAdapter(FragmentManager manager){
        super(manager);
    }

    public void addFragment(Fragment fragment){
        mFragments.add(fragment);
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mFragments.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return mFragments.get(position);
    }
  }

 }

TabOne.java

 package com.idevoc.onsitereseller;

 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
 import android.view.LayoutInflater;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.view.ViewGroup;

public class TabOne extends Fragment
{
public static final String ARG_SECTION_NUMBER = "section_number";
     @Override
    public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                    Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
            View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab_a, container, false);
            return view;
    }

}

TabTwo.java

 package com.idevoc.onsitereseller;

 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
 import android.view.LayoutInflater;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.view.ViewGroup;

 public class TabTwo extends Fragment
 {

     @Override
        public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState){
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
        }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                    Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
            View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab_a, container, false);

            return view;
    }
  }

Here I am loading two tabs for the application and loading a common menu, but I need to load a different menu for different tabs like:

if the tab is TabOne then load menu_a, if tab is TabTwo then load menu_b with different options. I don't want to load the common menu. How can I do this?

Answer 1

create a menu xml file for menu_a.xml and menu_b.xml in the res/menu folder.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/menu_item_search"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search"
        android:title="@string/description_search"
        android:orderInCategory="1"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
    <item android:id="@+id/menu_item_share"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_share"
        android:title="@string/description_share"
        android:orderInCategory="1"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>

To create a option menu for the current Fragment displayed, add setHasOptionsMenu(true); to the Fragment onCreate() method.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setHasOptionsMenu(true);

}

Then you must inflate the corresponding option menu (menu_a.xml or menu_b.xml) by override the onCreateOptionsMenu() method.

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_a, menu);
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}

For handling menu selections override the onOptionsItemSelected()

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.menu_item_search:                
              //do something
            return true;

        case R.id.menu_item_share:
              //do something
            return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
} 

see Creating an Options Menu: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html for more details.

Answer 2

Yes, I got the output with these codes ,

In TabOne.java and TabTwo.java I've added

   setHasOptionsMenu(true);

In onCreateView() function and after that menu function with different menu,removed menu function from main class.

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                    Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
            View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab_a, container, false);
            setHasOptionsMenu(true);
            return view;
    }
    @Override
    public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        //super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
         inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_b, menu);
    }